property

inevitably cruel & heartless

is the first face that looks upon

a baby with the idea that they are

property,

s/he who is the caregiver,

seeing a child not as something to

watch over, but something to possess---

s/he who passes on this

mold of humiliation, of self-hatred,

of that very structure, that very

core,

which forms our adulthood,

which reveals our communal slavery

to ideas,

of which we become

property &

acts made out in the vein of those ideas,

of which we become

property &

cells in which we are packaged away forever,

shelved as property &

in graves beneath the ground in which we are

forced to become

“property,”

even to the most absurd of suggestions,

the most absurd of reasoning,

the most absurd of developments,

that anything was of intrinsic value

to begin with.